2,120 chō (1,235 forest, 402 pasture, 110 artificial grass and 42 crops; 111 cattle). Income, 66,205 yen; net return, 1,011 yen. (Milk and meat farming.)
Average income and expenditure of 200 tenants of University land whose budgets Professor Morimoto (see Chapter XXXIV) investigated:
| yen | ||
| Crops | 451.66 | |
| Wages earned | 61.33 | |
| Horses | 20.09 | |
| Poultry and eggs | .96 | |
| Pigs | .85 | |
| Manure (animal, 35 kwan; human, 14 koku | 24.50 | |
| Other income | 29.64 | |
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| 589.03 | ||
| yen | ||
| Cultivation, etc. | 206.32 | |
| Cost of living | 303.33 | |
| ------ | ||
| 509.65 | ||
| ------ | ||
| Profit | 79.38 |
The returns of capital yielded the following averages:
| yen | |
| Tenant right in respect of 5-16 chō | 750.82 |
| Buildings (32.2 tsubo) | 195.95 |
| Clothing | 162.82 |
| Horse (average 1.23) | 108.48 |
| Furniture | 58.47 |
| Implements | 51.23 |
| Poultry (average 2.58) | 1.15 |
| Pigs (average .12) | .87 |
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| Total | 1,329.79 |
[ VALUE OF NEW PADDY [XIV].] More delicious rice could be got, I was told, from well-fertilised barren land than from naturally fertile land. The first year the new paddy yielded per tan an average of 1.2 koku, the second 1.6, the third 2, and this fourth year the yield would have been 2.3 had it not been for damage by storm.
[ AREAS AND CROPS OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF RICE [XV].] In 1919 there was grown of paddy rice 2,984,750 chō (2,729,639 ordinary, 255,111 glutinous) and of upland rice 141,365 chō. Total, 3,126,115 chō. The yield (husked, uncleaned) was of paddy 61,343,403 koku (ordinary, 56,438,005; glutinous, 4,905,398); of upland, 1,839,312. Total, 63,182,715 koku; value, 2,352,145,519 yen.
In 1877 the area is reputed to have been 1,940,000 chō with a yield of 24,450,000 koku and in 1882 2,580,000 chō with a yield of 30,692,000 koku. The average of the five years 1910-14 was 3,033,000 chō with a yield of 57,006,000 koku; of the five years 1915-19, 3,081,867 chō with a yield of 94,817,431 koku.
In a prefecture in south-western Japan I found that 2 koku 5 to (or 2½ koku, there being 10 to in a koku) per tan was common and that from 3 koku to 3 koku 5 to was reached. "A good yield for 1 tan," says an eminent authority, "is 3 koku, or on the best fields even 4 koku." The average yield in koku per tan for the whole country has been (paddy-field rice only): 1882, 1.19; 1894-8, 1.38; 1899-1903, 1.44; 1904-8, 1.57; 1909-13, 1.63; 1914-18, 1.86; 1919, 1.99; 1920, 2.05 (ordinary, 2.06; glutinous, 1.92). Upland rice in 1920, 1.30 as against 1.02 in 1909. All these figures are for husked, uncleaned rice.